Monday 11 April 2011

The Reader

A man boarded the train at W-wa Centralna and travelled to W-wa Wschodnia. He was engrossed in his paperback. I thought I'd caught the title, but evidently I didn't.

Nikon D40, 18-55mm lens (no VR); hand-held at a quarter of a second wide open at f3.5, zoomed out to 18mm (equivalent to 27mm on standard 35mm camera).

This time last year:
Fertile ground for conspiracy theorists

This time two years ago:
That's what I like about the North

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Looks like you're trying to oust Paddy from his stranglehold on Warsaw's public transport photography . . .

Paddy said...

What Pozdrowienia z Ursynowa has brought forth let no man snap asunder. Great pic though. I really do wish I could get a better camera.

adthelad said...

Going by the jacket he's got on, his severe myopia and the big hole in your blog yesterday, - the interconnectedness of things don't you know - my guess would be 'They Flew into Oblivion'.

Anonymous said...

This looks like a photo processing technique I've been hearing a lot about lately, HDR. Am I right?

Michael Dembinski said...

@ Anon: The photo was processed in LightRoom as it was a bit overexposed and lacking in contrast and saturation. It was then rotated slightly in Photoshop as the verticals weren't upright. What's HDR?

@ AdtheLad: LOL:-)

@ Paddy & Kolin - real Warsaw types like this character are harder to find!

Paddy said...

I'm quite pleased with these two:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0C3A1A3Fe0Y/TaNefQiHcaI/AAAAAAAAAYc/XgC04AIIKgE/s1600/IMG_1444.JPG

Paddy

Anonymous said...

Michael,

HDR is used for 'High Dynamic Range', which is becoming quite a fad in photographic equipment and software.

You can read more here - http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm

As far as I can tell it is little more than automating the process of merging a few bracketed snaps to create one that has the best bits of all of them.